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Assorted Video Game Movies in Development 363

Posted by CmdrTaco from the can't-suck-more-than-tomb-raider dept.
Obiwan Kenobi writes "Filmforce has a solid round-up of video game movies currently in development. From Alone In The Dark to Doom to Dead or Alive (yes, it includes an Extreme Beach Volleyball scene), some interesting reading on the current progress, or lack thereof, of current video game flicks."
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  • Sweet!!! (Score:5, Funny)

    by alwsn ( 593349 ) on Thursday April 24, 2003 @06:52PM (#5804294)
    Spy-Hunter
    Status: In Development
    Cast: Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson
    Director: None
    Writer: None


    Sweet! The Rock! He's good in anything!!!

    Hopefully this will be a bit more entertaining involving than the NES game... although I still hate those fat blue cars... knock me the road will you?

  • A couple of games I thought of.... (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Rooked_One ( 591287 ) on Thursday April 24, 2003 @06:52PM (#5804300) Journal
    I thought Half Life would have made an excellent movie.

    But put that idea to rest and just make a movie straight from Max Payne. That storyline was just incredible. Sure it would make the movie about 4 hours long, but man would it be great the first time you watched it.

    • I thought Half Life would have made an excellent movie.

      I would agree with that. I still have a couple TFC servers, but hope back to HL every now and then. HL was the first game I ever played that make me jump and gave me chill bumps. Its a bit dated now, but won game of the year in 1997 for good reason. The idea that the hero, Gordon Freeman, was a pretty normal guy (well, a normal guy with a PhD in physics) was part of the draw, IMHO.

      And you gotta love those little head eating monsters that looked li
    • That game had an excellent plot, and would make a great movie IMO. It could star Claire Danes or Anna Paquin.

    • Re:A couple of games I thought of.... (Score:5, Funny)

      by DeadScreenSky ( 666442 ) on Thursday April 24, 2003 @07:54PM (#5804783)
      But put that idea to rest and just make a movie straight from Max Payne. That storyline was just incredible.

      ...

      I especially enjoyed the excellent writing!
      "Punchinello wanted Payne.
      He'd see the pain."

      "Sooner or later it was going to catch up with you.
      You'd find that Lady Luck was really a hooker, and you were fresh out of cash."

      "Outside, the mercury was falling fast. It was colder than the devil's heart, raining ice pitchforks as if the heavens were ready to fall."

      "In the belly of the plant, molten metal boiled and bubbled like a witch's brew."

      This next one is especially 'great' in context of the game:
      "There are only personal apocalypses. Nothing is a cliché when it's happening to you."

      Gamespy's review quip is a pretty good indicator:
      "A great down and dirty shooter that's horribly written and incredibly short."

      Seriously, I agree some of the dialogue was a little funny, but the game's story was horrendous. Just cliché after cliché, and just because the game knew it didn't make sitting through them any more bearable. I think it was reaching for some of the ridiculous operatic heights John Woo films reach sometimes, but it just really failed at that and sounded stupid and predictable instead.

      All IMHO, of course. :P
      • ya, theres no doubt that the game is filled with crazy cheesy one liners, but if you think about it, its a bit like memento in a way... The guy actually killed his wife himself, doesn't remember it, but figures it out through dream sequences, then goes and seeks revenge through impossible odds.

        Wait a second... isn't that the storyline behind all action type movies? Oh wait... Max Payne had the designer drug that made it "all good" */sarcasm*

      • I liked it because of all of the cheesiness. It was at the same time a celebration and parody of the detective story.
        • I agree that it was probably trying to celebrate and parody the genre, but I really don't think it pulled it off, for a few reasons:

          A. It was parodying the wrong genre. The game was obviously a 'John Woo rip-off'. But hell, most of John Woo's stuff is already parody. Witness how much even a lesser Woo film like Mission Impossible 2 is parody. It mocks Tom Cruise (the hero) the whole time - it cinematically undermines him throughout the film. It is constantly deconstruction the masculinity of the protagonis
    • They need to make Tux Racer into a movie.

      Now that's something I'd pay to see.

      Disney, I'm looking at _you_.

  • Ooh, perhaps it's time for... (Score:4, Funny)

    by Stonehand ( 71085 ) on Thursday April 24, 2003 @06:53PM (#5804309) Homepage
    ...Lopez and Affleck to remake "Mortal Kombat".

  • I can't think of one good video game inspired movi (Score:5, Insightful)

    by heldlikesound ( 132717 ) on Thursday April 24, 2003 @06:57PM (#5804343) Homepage
    Mario Bros. - The Movie- Sucked
    Street Fighter The Movie - Sucked
    Pokemon Movies- Mostly suck, but one of the movies is a Monoke rip-off, which makes it cool...

    I will say that The Wizard was cool, but it was not so much a movie based on a video game as it was a movie about kids growing up in an age when video games were starting to be taken seriosly as an entertainment medium. I'd like to see more movies about gamer culture and less bad Van Dam as Guile pieces of crap...
    • Two words: Resident Evil.

      #define SIMPSONS_COMIC_BOOK_GEEK_VOICE
      Coolest. Movie. Ever.
      #undef SIMPSONS_COMIC_BOOK_GEEK_VOICE

    • Double Dragon - sucked (except for Alyssa Milano's cute tukkus).

      And you must be a youngin' if you think "The Wizard" was good. *SHUDDER*

    • Tetris, the movie (Score:5, Funny)

      by MillionthMonkey ( 240664 ) on Thursday April 24, 2003 @08:50PM (#5805094)
      ...starring Ben Affleck as that long thin piece that never shows up when you need it! Studio insiders report that this is a particularly challenging role for Affleck and he is preparing by taking falling and rotating lessons.

      I heard Stephen Spielberg and Tom Hanks are working on a version of MineSweeper. Although they're having trouble signing Drew Barrymore. She thinks the mines are too violent and refuses to be part of the project unless Spielberg replaces them with Walkie-Talkies.

      Coming soon... John Travolta in Space Invaders! Pixar is using a rendering farm to realistically display the motions of each of the sixty alien ships as they approach the Earth and ravage its barricades with a murderous barrage of short vertical lines.

    • The best video game made into a movie was never a video game, and it was called Run Lola Run. It had more of a sense of what makes video games unique and novel than any of the franchise movies. Also, unlike any of the spin-off movies, Run Lola Run didn't suck.

      Think about it: multiple lives, a rule-based universe, minigames in the movie (soccer, roulette, bike games). If you haven't seen Run Lola Run, do yourself a favor and grab it, and don't give any of these sad opportunistic clowns making franchise-flick

    • Re:I can't think of one good video game inspired m (Score:4, Funny)

      by extra88 ( 1003 ) on Friday April 25, 2003 @01:00AM (#5806222)
      I enjoyed Mortal Kombat [imdb.com] but that may have been partially due to a "contact high" of enthusiasm from the 13yr. old boys sitting two rows in front of me.

  • From the top of my head... (Score:3, Funny)

    by secolactico ( 519805 ) on Thursday April 24, 2003 @06:57PM (#5804347) Journal
    Let's see...

    Final Fantasy
    Mortal Kombat
    Resident Evil
    Final Fantasy...

    nope, can remember a single video game based movie that turned out ok, tho I'm sure there must be one somewhere.

    What? No Interstate '76 movie??? And come on! Pac-Mac? Will they bring back the "Magic Pill Trees"
    • Well, if there really was a video game, The Last Starfighter would of been on the list of good ones. It's close enough in concept to a huge list of Atari & 80's arcade games.
    • hmmm...cannot think of anything live-action off the top of my head. Can we consider Anime? If so I vote for Ninja Scroll. Oh crud, Samuraii Showdown was based on that, not the other way around.

      I think that the real reason that video games generally don't work well as movies is that the ones with plot ussually have about 50+ hours of plot, and the ones without plot really don't have plot. Take a look at Final Fantasy X. It is a great game with a great story (and probably has more units shipped than the

    • Almost as much as that article did. Wow, someone took like 10 minutes to compile stuff from Coming Attractions or Imdb. Yay Journalism!

      As far as the Tekken movie goes, they already made it [imdb.com]...only, much like Soul Calibur, Sammo's never going to get the rights, make the movie anyway, and just rename it to something else...because in Hong Kong, "kinda legal" doesn't mean that you definitely get sued, unlike the fabulous US of A.

      (For the record, the Tekken movie was extremely bad. The only characters in it
    • Finaly fantasy was great. Very impressive. The story was weird enough to defy most stereotypes.

      And Resident Evil rocked. No two ways about it.

      Max

  • What about Tomb Raider? (Score:4, Funny)

    by TaraByte ( 660047 ) on Thursday April 24, 2003 @07:02PM (#5804380) Homepage
    The plot totally sucked, but Angelina Jolie sure was hot.

  • Hmm (Score:5, Funny)

    by B3ryllium ( 571199 ) on Thursday April 24, 2003 @07:02PM (#5804382) Homepage
    Duke Nukem Forever: The Movie (Due out before the game. Besides, infinity plus infinity is still infinity, right?)

  • anacronox movie (Score:3, Informative)

    by newsdee ( 629448 ) on Thursday April 24, 2003 @07:04PM (#5804401) Homepage Journal
    It's already out already out [machinima.com] and it's free.

    Okay there's no Angelina Jolie and I have no idea if the plot is good, but at least it is faithful to the original game. :-)

    • I always wondered why people didn't do this with Half-Life? I would love to just sit down and watch the game play out just the way it is... you wouldn't have to add much to it. :-)

  • Nice, but women rock... (Score:5, Informative)

    by Justen ( 517232 ) on Thursday April 24, 2003 @07:05PM (#5804405) Homepage Journal
    Simply because the Tomb Raider franchise was so successful in theatres doesn't mean that the film and game industries should start making babies.

    There are many, many things specific to Tomb Raider that helped build its success as a movie. Primarily, there is a popular need for additional female-driven action movies.

    Jinx, played by Halle Berry, from the James Bond series is a good example [guardian.co.uk] of things to come. She's also looking at Catwoman [yahoo.com]. Ashley Judd in upcoming [yahoo.com] The Blackout Murders and, of course, there's always Charlie's Angels [sonypictures.com].

    Anyway, it isn't affirmative action for the sake of affirmative action... It's a need...

    Good luck to these movies, though.

    justen
    • That's about the only excuse for Tomb Raider having any success in the theatres at all, IMO. It could have been a great flick, but it committed the cardinal sin for any action movie: it was boring. I'm not sure how Angelina Jolie in a skimpy costume kicking ass managed to be boring, but there it is ...
      • So boring that it made mega-bucks and has a huge fan base.

        The movie wasn't boring, it just wasn't your cup of tea. Unless you suscribe to the idea that you're the sum total and center of the universe, these two things aren't at all related.

        Max
    • Kinda funny how Hollywood types, TV producers and comic book fans are always claiming that women need to be better represented in action roles, and by way of demonstration they point to what basically amount to shows/movies/comics about ridiculously big-tittied babes battling with samurai swords. "See? She's a strong-willed woman with intelligence as well as looks, and SHE gets to decide who she has hot, steamy animal sex in a bubble bath with -- NOT some macho male character!" Yeah, great precedent. Real e
      • Yeah, great precedent.
        My question is what exactly would you prefer instead? These are action roles we are talking about here - they don't show males in a particularly good light, either, often making them at least borderline psychotic. The whole action hero is pretty much by definition violent, oversexed (and oversexualized), callous, young, antisocial, aggressive. I think the better action films really critique or confront this image, but even they can't seem to do without it.

        I am not necessarily critici

  • who needs these new game movies... (Score:5, Interesting)

    by DanThe1Man ( 46872 ) on Thursday April 24, 2003 @07:05PM (#5804416)
    ...when we have the classic Atari movie [goldenshower.gs].

  • Video Games Movie list (Score:5, Informative)

    by newsdee ( 629448 ) on Thursday April 24, 2003 @07:08PM (#5804431) Homepage Journal
    I knew my list of video games movies (live action, no animation) would be useful one day.

    If you see anything missing please reply so I can add it :-)

    "DIRECT CONVERSIONS":

    Super Mario Bros.
    Street Fighter
    Mortal Kombat
    Mortal Kombat Annihilation
    Dungeons & Dragons (ok, it's a table RPG, but still...)
    Wing Commander
    Resident Evil
    Tomb Raider
    Final Fantasy
    Double Dragon
    Clue (table game, see D&D)
    Last Bronx

    (MISTAKENLY THOUGHT AS CONVERSIONS)
    Parasite Eve (not really, book and movie released first)

    "INSPIRED FROM VIDEOGAMES":

    The 13th Floor
    Avalon
    Cloak and Dagger
    eXistenZ
    Joysticks
    The Last Starfighter
    Matrix
    Mazes and Monsters
    Nightmares - Bishop of Battle sequence
    Strange Days
    Tron
    War Games
    The Wizard
    (Code Hunter?)

    • The 13th Floor was actually inspired by Simulacron-3 [amazon.com] by Daniel Galouye. Published 1964. Probably predates whatever game/games you were thinking of.
      • The 13th Floor was also the worst movie I've ever seen. And I've seen a LOT of movies. From the USA Late Night flicks to Kurosawa.

        And nothing, other than that one-two punch of feces from Chris O'Donnel (Batman Forever and The Bachelor), could top that.

        The difference is that I never saw those movies in the theater. I never paid my hard earned cash for the privilege of seeing those films on the bigscreen.

        And when I couldn't take it anymore, when I just couldn't stand the terribleness of it, I had to go.

        Th
    • Sadly, of all the games you listed in the "Direct Conversions" list only one was any good. And that was Clue, which was really good. As for the rest of it, most of them I had managed to block out of my reality, now I have to go back to therapy, thank you so much.
      On a seriuos note, I think part of the problem with the video-game to movie conversion, is that the movie studios don't have a clue about their target audience for these sorts of things. Its almost as if they assume that the name and genere are
      • Actually whether a video game movie is good or not would depend on different criterias. Most people judge the movie on whether it stands on its own as a good movie (i.e. somebody who never heard about the game understands/likes it).

        However, to be fair we should rather see if the movie is faithful to the original game, because let's be honest, there are not many games with a solid storyline. :-)

        Under the second criteria, which is what I ask in a videogame movie, more of the list become "good". :-)
    • The first time I saw the Final Fantasy movie, I agree, it sucked. But I was trying to fit it into a Sci-Fi type theme.
      The second time I watched it, I realized that it's actually a Horror movie. Once I was able to approach it from the proper frame of referance, it's actually quite a good movie.
      And the voice talent is not for nothing either.
      Yes, it bombed. Yes it practically destroyed square. But as far as horror flicks go, it was actually quite good.
    • How about...
      Arcade
      Brainscan
      Brainstorm
      Jumanji
      Lawnmower Man
      Virtuosity

      They probably fall into your meta category...

  • This is Disney's second crack at adapting Lewis Carroll's Alice books to the big screen. The film adaptation of American McGee's Alice (in turn a video game adaption of Carroll's books) will be produced by Dimension Films, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company.

    If you're boycotting Disney [losingnemo.com], such as if you're a Southern Baptist [erlc.com] or you just disapprove of Disney-sponsored copyright legislation [pineight.com], don't see Alice.

    • 2 more by Dimension (Score:2, Interesting)

      by yerricde ( 125198 )

      After I posted the parent comment, I discovered two more games to which Disney owns the film rights: Alone in the Dark (Dimension) and Backwater (Dimension).

      And is this a coincidence or not? "A screenwriting team has been hired and Milla Jovovich has been talking herself up for the lead [in Alice]." ... "Whether you loved or hated the first one, a Resident Evil sequel is on the way. Milla Jovovich will be reprising her role as Alice." Are there other screen actors or actresses who have portrayed several

    • Hmm ... and on the other hand, I bet the movie will just suck all on its own, so your points would be rendered moot. :)

  • So what's the difference? (Score:5, Insightful)

    by NetDanzr ( 619387 ) on Thursday April 24, 2003 @07:14PM (#5804481)
    Spy Hunter. Max Payne. Hitman. Grand Theft Auto. The Getaway. Driver.

    I see no difference between these games and gangster movies since the silend black-and-white movie. Hell, I could name movies with Charles Bronson, Chuck Norris or Clint Eastwood that would fit any of these games. All the producers have to do is to re-release these old movies, slap a new name on them and they are done.

    Did anybody consider that games are influenced by movies, and thus making a movie based on a game that was inspired by a movie is a little redundant?

  • What about movies told through video games? Like Bloodgulch [redvsblue.com]?

  • CLOAK AND DAGGER (Score:3, Interesting)

    by Oriumpor ( 446718 ) on Thursday April 24, 2003 @07:17PM (#5804512) Homepage Journal
    last not crummy video game movie... not exactly based ON a video game, but around it.

    ok ... maybe not so good... but look what they had to compete with D.A.R.Y.L.

  • Now this is funny (Score:4, Funny)

    by Wordsmith ( 183749 ) on Thursday April 24, 2003 @07:21PM (#5804545) Homepage
    Duke Nukem: The Movie
    Status: Missing-In-Action
    Cast: None
    Director: None
    Writer: None
    The Scoop: This long-rumored project is well past its prime.
    • They're just trying to get the release date of the movie to coincide with the release date of Duke Nukem: Forever, a.k.a. a few days after the universe implodes.

    • Re:Now this is funny (Score:3, Informative)

      by JimPooley ( 150814 )
      There'll never be a Duke Nukem movie for the simple reason that so many of Duke's lines are lifted from the Evil Dead movies that Sam Raimi would sue. John Carpenter might join in.
  • This is a good game, but they'd probably give it an X rating.

  • Marathon... (Score:2, Interesting)

    by rmarquis ( 184077 )
    would make an excellent film. Anyone concur?
    • People toss this around from time to time on the Marathon's story forums. I think the consensus is that basing a movie directly on the game would be a little crazy. One person mentioned specifically that it would feel a bit like "2001: A Space Odessy meets Judge Dredd".

  • PG-13 Doom (Score:2, Insightful)

    by SnuSnu ( 630537 )
    Funny, yet utterly retarded.
  • Yes, it's true. Read here [go.com].

  • doa (Score:2, Funny)

    by cyrax777 ( 633996 )
    will it be mastered in jigglevision?
  • Between the blissful fantasy of a giant size Imax rendition of Trinity in that black leather, and the movie poster of Angelina Jolie, adorned in skintight brest-squeezing material with the lighting hitting her oh-so-right......

    *eeehhh*

    Damn you Slashdot

  • Super Mario Bros [imdb.com]

    Double Dragon [imdb.com]

    Mortal Kombat [imdb.com]

    Sigh. I'm sure Duke Nukem:the movie will be remembered as a testament to the wonderful creativity of man, and beloved by all.

    But.......if it has Bruce Campbell in it, you know I'll be in line!
  • Aliens vs. Predator [avpnews.com] It's even got a director [aintitcool.com] attached to it. Looks like a go, but who knows if it will be any good....

  • The Tim Schaeffer LucasArts games could be made into very interesting movies. Day Of The Tentacle, Monkey Island, and a few others might be way too oddball for mass appeal, but Full Throttle and Grim Fandango might not be.

    What they have going for them is that the game worlds are superbly realized and the adventure game form is cinematic. There are RTS and turn-based strategy games with superbly realized game worlds, but the art form isn't as amenable to cinema.

    Can somebody make Grim Fandango into a mo

  • Monkey Island The Movie (Score:5, Funny)

    by CausticWindow ( 632215 ) on Thursday April 24, 2003 @07:54PM (#5804784)
    Starring John Cusack as budding pirate Guybrush Threepwood,
    With Cameron Diaz as Elaine,
    Jack Nicholson as Le Chuck The Evil Pirate,
    Chevy Chase as Stan,
    Vincent Gallo as Herman Toothroot,
    and Leonardo DiCaprio as the monkey.

  • Dirty Dance Dance Revolution (Score:5, Funny)

    by chill182 ( 591443 ) on Thursday April 24, 2003 @08:08PM (#5804859) Homepage
    Dirty Dance Dance Revolution

    A rich girl on vacation with her family finds herself in an arcade subjected to a new form of "dancing" that regular people don't understand. She falls in love with a guy that got good by playing the game on pads in his parents basement. She gets in a big fight with her family when they realize she is a geek.

    "4 stars." - Kenton Times
    "A coming of age film that is fun for the whole family" - Findlay Courier
    "This is the best movie based on the video game Dance Dance Revolution we have seen this year" - Columbus Dispatch

  • More game movies (Score:2, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward
    One game no director could screw up is Halo...O how sweet a halo movie would be.

    Also a metriod movie is in the works...here [shacknews.com]
  • I first thought this was a story about movies made with video games- as seen on Machinima [machinima.com]. Not only are there the independant efforts there, but reportedly the Unreal engine was used for 'animatic' storyboarding of Minority Report and maybe a couple of other movies. I can't find a link for that one, so I might have just made it up.

  • Milla Jovovich in Alice... (Score:5, Funny)

    by El Camino SS ( 264212 ) on Thursday April 24, 2003 @08:40PM (#5805040)
    A screenwriting team has been hired and Milla Jovovich has been talking herself up for the lead.

    Milla Jovovich as a hot Alice? In the stockings and the little black shoes? Maybe a tight little Bettie Page haircut?

    I pretty much see that as being as the best f'n idea I have heard all year. Whoever is behind that idea deserves an Oscar almost as much as the guy that was responsible for putting the pool scene in Wild Things.

  • No movie based on tetris?!?!?!?

  • Now they're turning games into movies en masse? (Score:3, Interesting)

    by retro128 ( 318602 ) on Thursday April 24, 2003 @09:51PM (#5805417)
    What, did Hollywood run out of books to rape? You would think they would have learned from spiraling fireballs like Super Mario Brothers, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, Wing Commander, Resident Evil, etc.
    Now I see DOA the movie (I don't know about you guys, but if I want a movie full of hot chicks with no plot, well, that's what porn is for) and, god forbid, Pac Man. Jesus, even at the pinnacle of Pac Man fever they weren't insane enough to make a movie out of it. That whole list sends chills down my spine. I don't know whether to gape in horror or fall off my chair laughing.
  • Mortal Kombat (the first one) has been the only one that has entertained me.

    Everything else has sucked. Street Fighter? Sucked. Double Dragon? Sucked. Mario Bros.? Sucked. Final Fantasy? Sucked.

    There are only two reasons that Tomb Raider did well at the box office. I think you know what they are.

  • I got an idea! (Score:3, Funny)

    by Dirtside ( 91468 ) on Thursday April 24, 2003 @11:01PM (#5805719) Journal
    They should make a movie out of all those Star Wars games I keep seeing. It seems like a strong franchise; there must be something to it.
  • Critique of certain things:
    Oh man I grew UP with Metroid 1... they better NOT fuck this up. Same goes for doom. I am tired of horror flicks. And DIABLO?! If they DO make a movie, Condor/Blizzard North had best go back to diablo 1... Diablo II lacked soul. It felt empty, except perhaps in Kurast. It just felt weak compared to its older sibling Diablo. The boss was good but moviewise, Tristram may be better... unless of course they make the demons convincing out in the deserts and the jungle... Hell co

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